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AT THE POPE'S RIGHT HAND: REVIEW

Komonchak, Joseph A ; The Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, who teaches theology in the department of religion and religious education at the Catholic University of America in Washington, is writing a book on the Second Vatican Council

New York Times, 1985

New York, N.Y: New York Times Company

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    AT THE POPE'S RIGHT HAND: REVIEW
  • Autor: Komonchak, Joseph A ; The Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, who teaches theology in the department of religion and religious education at the Catholic University of America in Washington, is writing a book on the Second Vatican Council
  • Assuntos: KOMOCHAK, JOSEPH A ; Messori, Vittorio ; Ratzinger, Joseph ; RATZINGER, JOSEPH (CARDINAL)
  • É parte de: New York Times, 1985
  • Descrição: Cardinal [Joseph Ratzinger] attributes the damage pro-duced in the years since the council to the unleashing of ''latent polemical and centrifugal forces'' inside the church, and to the church's confrontation with the cultural revolution in the West represented by the triumph of middle-class individualism, rationalism and hedonism. Vatican II is not to blame. It was not a break with the past but an attempt to renew the language in which the Church presents its ancient message and to authorize sets of internal reforms to adapt its activity to modern conditions. Those who insist there was a break between a ''pre- and a post-conciliar Church'' ignore the far greater continuity between the council and earlier tradition. The blame for the disappointment of hopes for renewal belongs to those who have gone far beyond both the letter and the spirit of Vatican II, he thinks. The answer to the present crisis is a ''return to the authentic texts of the original Vatican II,'' a ''restoration,'' not in the sense of a return to the past but of a ''search for a new balance after all the exaggerations of an indiscriminate opening to the world, after the overly positive interpretations of an agnostic and atheistic world.'' After eliciting this general assessment, the interviewer takes Cardinal Ratzinger through a series of discussions in which he identifies the many problems the church faces today - a reductionist view of the church as a human construction rather than a divine institution; the loss of the sacred identity of the priest; the surrender by bishops of their individual authority to the bureaucratic structure of national episcopal conferences; individualism in theology and selectivity in catechesis; a loss of faith in God and Christ; a loss of the sense of original sin; permissiveness in morality, particularly the separation of sexuality from procreation; the denial of the proper role of women; the decline in Marian faith and piety; a trivialization of the liturgy; a dangerous neglect of the role and power of the Devil; too much accommodation in ecumenism and a liaison with Marxism in liberation theology. All in all, a most unhappy scene is painted, very rarely illuminated by some faint signs of vitality and hope. It is, he says, a ''confused period where truly every type of heretical aberration seems to be pressing upon the doors of the authentic faith.'' As disparate as these topics are, a common viewpoint and method are visible in the Cardinal's discussion of them. By far the greatest part of the treatment is devoted to dangers, abuses and fears. There is usually some brief warning against going too far in reacting to them and at times an equally brief indication that he believes there are also some positive aspects of the phenomenon under discussion. No names of those distrusted or criticized are ever given, nor is there any verifiable indication of how widespread a particular trend may be; frustratingly general words like ''some,'' ''certain'' and ''many'' abound. It is a very one-sided description, perhaps inevitable given the fact that, as a member of the Cardinal's Vatican congregation puts it, his daily work involves him with ''the pathology of faith.''
  • Editor: New York, N.Y: New York Times Company
  • Idioma: Inglês
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